Information We Know About John of Newton

Early Dates for John, Elizabeth and their Children

1652 Aug 13, Walter Cole Will (Lavenham, UK) where he states “my daughter Elizabeth the now wife of
John Fuller in New England.”

1655 Dec. 8, Nicholas Davison of Charleston sold to John Fuller, 9 acres of land in Watertown for £44.

1657 May 15, John Fuller of Cambridge sold 9 acres of land in Watertown to Richard Sanger for £46.

1658 Dec 22, Joseph Cook sold to John Fuller of Cambridge, 750 acres of land on & south of the
Charles River for £160.

1676 April 13, John Macoone sold to John Fuller of Cambridge, 22 acres of land & buildings in
Cambridge and 5 acres of land near the Falls on the Charles River for £60.

1678 Letter from John of Newton to the Probate Court, Middlesex, Massachusetts

In a Letter dated Dec 14, 1678, John Fuller informed the Probate Court that the 22 acres of land in Simon Onge’s estate inventory was his land and that he only allowed Simon Onge the right to live on the land during his lifetime.

Also Served with Town of Newton:

1686 – Committee to negotiate with Cambridge on Taxation and Separation

1689 – Committee to choose a County Clerk of Writs

1695-96 – Other Town Committees

Source:

The Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts 1630-1703. The Records of the Town Meetings, and of the Selectmen, Comprising all of the First Volume of Records, and being Volume II, of the Printed Records of the Town. Printed by Order of the City Council Under the Direction of the City Clerk Cambridge, 1901, University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

Jackson, Francis, A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, county of Middlesex, From 1639 to 1800, with a Genealogical Register of its Inhabitants Prior to 1800. Boston: Printed by Stacy and Richardson, 1854, page 216.